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July 18, 2013

TQOTD - Which book made you cry?

Okay, so we all know that TV shows and movies make us cry all the time (or am I in this alone??) I will admit I even cried during the beginning of Up and the ending of Tangled - when did they start making children movies so emotional anyway? But what about books?

I’m an emotional gal, so here’s my question of the day: Which book or passage made you genuinely cry while reading it?

I received The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger randomly. I was not fully prepared for this book! I can’t tell you how many times I blubbered in tears (maybe I AM that much of a wuss?) There are moments so sad, I couldn’t help it.

A new favorite book of mine is Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. When I read it last year, there was a single scene that left me sobbing like a baby on the bus. Without being too graphic, a Chinese woman allows horrible things to happen to her to prevent them from happening to her daughter who bore witness to it. As they held hands and she lay slowly dying she said “It was my honor to save you." I can’t even talk about it without crying.

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"Love, Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli. The letter where Stargirl asked Leo what he had done with her heart and had he misplaced it? Well, it's out of context, and paraphrased, and you have to read it. But that's what got me.

I love books that make me feel something, but the only book I remember really crying while reading was a book by Karin Slaughter. I cried buckets and they were not good tears. i just read Making It Last by Ruthie Knox. I didn't cry, but my heart hurt through most of the book. I loved how it ended tho.

The last four chapters of Losing Hope had me in a mess. I broke down at the dinner table telling my family about Hope and Holder and then later talking on FaceTime with my sister. Cray cray, I still get emotional thinking about it!

I tend to avoid books that I KNOW will make me cry, as crying sets off my migraines. However, I've been surprised by sudden "OMG my favorite character is about to die" type scenes in YA novels, like every Cassandra Clare novel that I've read so far, and the Patrick Ness "Chaos Walking" series.

I'm one of the few that doesn't cry, really ever, at books and movies, but I do remember being pretty emotional reading Bridge To Teribithia when I was 9. That's as close as I ever came, but to this day, that book remains one of my absolute favorites from childhood.

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